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1 I refer in this article to the following texts, in order of appearance: CitationPhaswane Mpe, Welcome to Our Hillbrow. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2001 (hereafter WH); CitationIvan Vladislavić, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked. London: Portobello, 2006 (hereafter PK); CitationAchmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit. Cape Town: Kwela, 2001 (hereafter BF); CitationIvan Vladislavić, The Restless Supermarket, 2nd ed. 2001; Johannesburg: David Philip, 2006 (hereafter RS).
2CitationDerrida, Speech and Phenomena, 136.
3 See CitationMurray, City of Extremes, 87–135.
4 See for instance CitationBremner, “Closure, Simulation, and “Making Do””, 124.
5CitationJones, “Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion”, 209–10.
6 On this category, see for instance CitationFlockemann, “Little Perpertrators, Witness-Bearers”, 21–34; CitationSamuelson, “Walking through the Door”, 130–7.
7CitationSapire, “Township Histories, Insurrection and Liberation”, 167–98.
8CitationKruger, Imagining the Edgy City, 106.
9CitationDavenport, South Africa: A Modern History, 556.
10CitationSmith, “Introduction”, in The Apartheid City and Beyond, 6–7.
11CitationMarais, South Africa Pushed to the Limit, 58.
12 Ibid., 91–3, 105–20.
13CitationGovernment of Republic of South Africa, The Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991, Act 108.
14CitationPlaatjies, “Introduction: Building State Capacity”, xxvii.
15CitationButler, Contemporary South Africa, 90–1.
16 Marais, South Africa Pushed to the Limit, p.208.
17 Derrida, Speech and Phenomena, 130.
18CitationDerrida, “Living On: Border Lines”, 75.
19 On this topic see, for instance, CitationBrooks and Jewett, eds, The Humanities and Public Life; CitationReadings, The University in Ruins; CitationSmall, The Value of the Humanities; CitationMorgan Wortham, Counter-Institutions.
20 A more concrete sense of this micro-topography can be gained by searching for the north-western corner of the intersection Roberts Avenue/Blenheim Street in Google-Maps street-view; the photograph is dated 2009.
21 See for instance CitationSimone, For the City Yet to Come.
22 Butler, Contemporary South Africa, 92–3.
23CitationMbembe, “Rule of Property versus Rule of the Poor?”
24CitationBurdett and Sudjic, eds, The Endless City, 198.
25 Kruger, Imagining the Edgy City, 152.
26CitationBremner, Writing the City into Being, 203.
27CitationGaylard, “Migrant Ecology in the Postcolonial”, 306.
28CitationGovernment of Republic of South Africa, Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996.
29 Kruger, Imagining the Edgy City, 7.
30 See for instance the heavily overdetermined p.86 in Derrida, “Living On: Border Lines”.
31 Compare CitationBonhoeffer, Ethik, 247–9.
32 For a general overview, see for instance CitationGraham, South African Literature.
33CitationArmstrong, “Rape in South Africa”, 35–9.
34 Compare CitationTomaselli and Tomaselli, ““Turning Grey”: How Westville was Won”, 279–91.
35 See CitationEidelberg, “South African Apartheid”, 91; for a cognate logic, see CitationLaCapra, Writing History, Writing Trauma, 169–71.
36 Dangor quoted in CitationFrenkel, “Performing Race, Reconsidering History”, 150; and CitationDangor, “Apartheid and the Death of South African Cities”, (n.p.).
37 See CitationMurray and O'Regan, No Place to Rest; also, CitationDeutsche, Eviction: Art and Spatial Politics.
38 Kruger, Imagining the Edgy City, 170.
39 See again Dangor, “Apartheid and the Death of South African Cities”.
40 See , “Structural Analysis of Narrative”, 75; Introduction to Poetics, 48–51.
41 See CitationLotman, The Structure of the Artistic Text, 212–17.
42CitationBakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, 97–9.
43CitationKrog, Country of My Skull, 73–5; CitationKruger, Post-Imperial Brecht, 337–75; CitationSanders, Ambiguities of Witnessing, 99–102.
44 See for instance CitationHREOC, Bringing Them Home, 19–20.
45 For a position affirming this intention, see CitationGibson, “Overcoming Apartheid”, 82–110.
46 For more sceptical assessments, see for instance CitationMamdani, “Amnesty or Impunity?”, 33–59;
CitationMorris, “In the Name of Trauma”, 388–416; CitationPosel and Simpson, eds, Commissioning the Past.
47CitationTruth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, The Report of the Truth.
48 Lotman, The Structure of the Artistic Text, 229–31.
49 See CitationWilson, The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation, 24–7.
50CitationMandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 433.
51CitationSmith, “Mandela: Death of a Politician”, 17–19.
52 See CitationDerrida, interview: “Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility”, 66.
53CitationGraham, “Remembering to Forget”, 42.
54 See for instance CitationFukuyama, The End of History.
55CitationGrunebaum, “Talking to Ourselves”, 309.
56 On the Mall in Ekhurhuleni on the East Rand, see Kruger, Imagining the Edgy City, 5; on the Mall in Gugulethu township, see CitationLegg, “20 years on: Why Cape Town is better now”; CitationTeppo and Houssay-Holzschuch, “GugulethuTM”, 51–74; the latter article also mentions malls in Khayelitsha, Charlesville and Mitchell's Plain, Soweto and Ekhurhuleni townships (62, 63).
57CitationBisseker, “Retailers drive into the townships”.
58 Teppo and Houssay-Holzschuch, “GugulethuTM”, 67–9.
59 Teppo and Houssay-Holzschuch, “GugulethuTM”, 65–7.
60 See for instance CitationHassan, Empires of Speed; CitationRosa and Scheuerman, eds., High-Speed Society; CitationWest-Pavlov, Temporalities, 120–36.
61CitationAugé, Non-Places, 96, 101–2, 106.
62 See for instance CitationMbembe, “Aesthetics of Superfluity”, 37–67.
63 Teppo and Houssay-Holzschuch, “GugulethuTM”, 52.
64 Kruger, Imagining the Edgy City, 3.
65 Teppo and Houssay-Holzschuch, “GugulethuTM”, 56
66 Kruger, Imagining the Edgy City, 14.
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Russell West-Pavlov
Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of English at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Recent publications include Temporalities (2013) and Spaces of Fiction / Fictions ofSpace (2010). Email: [email protected]